Patient Gamers

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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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An interesting blog, mostly game testing (blog.chordian.net)
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Anyone else playing on a 5-20 year lag? (xkcd.com)
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I tried a couple of times to make https://www.reddit.com/r/cuttingedgegaming/ happen, but never reached many people. This community seems to mostly folks playing 1-2 year old games, I wonder if there are more of us who are playing older (but not "retro") games, particularly PC games?

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What is an unpopular game/series you enjoy anyway? (self.patientgamers)
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Mine is the Army Men series. Objectively mediocre games at best but the concept of toy soldiers fighting over our yards and rooms has always been cool to me

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Weekend PC Game Deals: Steam Summer Sale 2023 Edition (www.neowin.net)
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Recommendation: Wizard of Legend (lemmy.world)
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A wonderful rougelike that does not get talked about as much as it deserves, give it a shot now that it is on sale!

the combat system is wonderful with tons of spells and ability to chain them together, it feels really fluid. spells feel a lot like avatar lol

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Stop sleeping on Yakuza/Like a Dragon (lemmy.world)
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A little over a year ago, my wife and I finished playing persona 5 Royal and were eager to find another big rpg to play together. We went to the store and this bold, yellow game case covered in wild imagery sat on the shelf. It was yakuza like a dragon. This would be our first time entering the like a dragon franchise and it certainly wasn’t the last. Since then, we’ve played like a dragon 7, 0, Kiwami, Ishin and the spin offs Judgement and Lost Judgement. All of the games fabulous and, importantly, all games have independent enough narratives that it doesn’t really matter where you choose to get on board.

If you like big, narrative games, chaotic characters, eclectic and deep gameplay, and you don’t shy away from some intense tonal whiplash, DO NOT sleep on this franchise any longer.

Where I live, most of the games are on PlayStation plus, so you don’t have to go out of your way to buy them if you’re a subscriber. Otherwise they’re on frequent sale.

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Dark Souls trilogy are all brilliant games, and are finally on a steam sale for the first time in a year and a half (i.imgur.com)
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All three games are on sale on steam for the first time since January 2022 (to the best of my knowledge). If you’ve never given them a shot, now is the best time to do so as they don’t go on sale very often at all

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A look back at Zombie Army Trilogy (youtu.be)
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The Original Pikmin still holds up incredibly well (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/706764

So I consider myself a very casual Pikmin fan. I haven't played the first 2 since they came out for the GameCube, and have only played some of the 3rd one back on WiiU. So with Pikmin 4 around the corner and Nintendo shadow dropping the first two on Switch, I figured it was time for a replay.

I just completed Pikmin 1, and what an absolutely fantastic experience. I think back when I was a kid playing the first one may have been just a bit too much strategy for me to comprehend. But now may years later, I just absorbed myself into it.

Pacing out every day to explore the areas and devise a strategy of what I could reasonably tackle, judging if I should spend the day going straight for ship parts or doing pikmin harvesting... It all comes together with such an incredible sense of flow. The 30 Day time limit really makes you consider all of your actions. And it seemed like an intimidating limit at first, but the 30 Day cycle was much more forgiving than I expected. Even if I had a rough day, I could at least put my Pikmin away and just run around and assess the areas as Olimar.

And even as just an upscale, the visuals are brilliant. I love that early GameCube era look of games like this and Luigis Mansion.The way the environments and camera are designed do a great job making you feel like a tiny man in a big strange world.

I feel like I've fallen in love with a franchise all over again. I'm starting Pikmin 2 tonight, and can't wait to play 4 next month. If you haven't tried out this series, please do yourself a favor and grab at least the first game on the eshop. It's a perfect slice of pure Nintendo.

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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What do you suggest? (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/patientgamers
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Another week, another recommendations thread.

Let everyone know below a game (6+ months old), that you have played recently, are currently playing or intend to play soon.

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How is Xbox 360 emulation these days? (lemmy.world)
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I'm really only now getting heavy into emulators and I've been playing a lot of PS2 titles on my android phone. That's rocky enough that I know 360 emulation on a phone would be trash. But how is it on PCs?

Program recommendations? Advice? Thanks!

Totally not doing this just because I'm finishing up RDR2 and I need to know the rest of the story from the original, nope not at all.

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Hollow Knight White Palace finally completed (lemmy.world)
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So I posted recently about something with Hollow Knight and how I was too fat fingered to do the white palace

Well before I wrote that I got as far as the room that has the secret wall to the Path of Pain. I resigned myself after going at the normal way it for hours and getting stuck there.

After writing , I tried to have a go at it again and reading guides to what to do, I finally got through it after an embarrasing amount of hours... now I know it is a skill issue I have with platformers and I was hating myself the whole way through while using a keyboard.

I hated doing it, felt like the game was going to break me but I carried on cursing the game for every inch of progress I made. I can acknowledge that the White Palace was well made ( although the saws and spear mechanisms will probably give me nightmares) , felt a bit overtuned on the timings, but again what do I know I am horrible with platforming in general.

If the normal white palace gave me this much trouble, then I will probably get aneurysms trying to do the path of pain and give respect to those that have will to do it

I don't wish to discourage anyone from playing the game though, my embarrasing amount of hours I put into completing the White Place is more an effect of me literally brute forcing my brain to get timings right and then playing a section at a time that the many sections on an obstacle becomes one set piece action when I stop thinking and let muscle memory take over

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Recommending Slay the Spire (lemmy.world)
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Ive been loving this game. Its a card game with lots of depth to the optimization and some RNG but its not overly punishing. If youre looking for a fun casual game try it out! Its less than $10 on sale right now.

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Fallout 4 has aged beautifully. You should play it again. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Archive link

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Night in the Woods retrospective - Choosing the best worth path (www.gameshub.com)
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Diablo 3 is so good! (lemmy.world)
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I’ve played Diablo 1 and world of Warcraft which is slightly similar, but just tried d3 a week ago. I play most games on my switch, I grabbed the eternal edition a while back. The spec system looks really basic, but it gets fairly deep with runes and legendary items. What amazes me the most is the speed, there are a ton of graphical effects popping on high level gameplay, and zero slowdown even with 100+ enemies casting spells constantly. I’ve maxxed two characters so far and gearing them now.

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Just finished RAGE, moving on to play RAGE 2. (self.patientgamers)
submitted 2 years ago by TaraYazdiEnthusiast to c/patientgamers
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Can't believe I ignored this series for years. The first game has aged a bit since it was released in 2011, and the sequel in 2019 has held up and is loads of fun.

Lots of carnage, cool weapons, and the environment is a hell of a lot like Mad Max. Would definitely recommend picking up especially now with the Steam summer sales. They really are hidden gems!

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'The Last of Us' Retrospective: How a Game Propelled a Franchise Into Mainstream Popularity 10 Years Later (www.tvinsider.com)
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What are your favorite podcasts, video content creators, etc for gaming content? (self.patientgamers)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by WheeGeetheCat to c/patientgamers
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I'm looking for some recommendations for things to listen to or casually watch to stay 'in the loop' on the standout games of the year, hear discussion of good games in general, feed my video game fan soul but not just about the newest latest thing.

I figured this group might know of good spots to look.

What are your favorites?

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I was thinking of buying Raft and watched the trailer (sopuli.xyz)
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...and the god damn trailer shows way too much of the game! Why do devs do this? It's not making me want to buy the game more, on the opposite, I'm now considering whether it's even worth it. If the devs really want to show off, they could just end the trailer with hinting that there's more and leave it as mystery.

The whole point of exploration games is to find out stuff for yourself and be amazed about stuff you didn't expect. If you show everything it just spoils the fun out of it.

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Steam Summer Sale 2023 Recommendations Thread (aussie.zone)
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Harry Potter Video Game Retrospective: Years 1-3 on Console | GameLuster (gameluster.com)
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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? (aussie.zone)
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Feel free to let everyone know what you're currently playing, recommend some great titles from yesteryear (especially on sale).

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It's Been 11 Years, But I Keep Coming Back To Detective Adventure L.A. Noire (www.thegamer.com)
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Is Hellpoint on PS5 worth playing? (self.patientgamers)
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Hey all! I am still mourning the completion of Elden Ring and have been falling back on Nioh 2 for some hurt-me-so-good gameplay.

Just heard of Hellpoint. I was super stoked for a minute, then saw that the PS4 version was pretty meh with lots of bugs. Haven't seen much news on the PS5 version.

Would love other recs in these trying times. Coop is always a bonus.

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